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Ok, so a photon is like Gertrude Stein’s rose - it’s a photon. It is easy to accept the Bohr model of an atom, or a more advanced similar, though more sophisticated model which comes to much the same concept. So there is no problem with seeing that “excited” atoms emit photons of a particular...

Classically, I think it is correct to say that Maxwell implies an accelerated electron will "radiate" What is the quantum take on this please? In particular, what determines the wavelength of the emitted photon? PS I may ahve asked something like this before, but I never found an answer...

How does a lamb recognise its mummy? It knows the baah code

did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed the missionary in the jungle?

This may not be the right thread, but "electron acceleration" has been mentioned, so maybe it is. I thought Maxwell started this one, but he certainly had not heard about QFT! What is bugging me is a)what is the energy distribution of photons being emitted from such acceleration And b) In an...